02x19 - Rock and a Hard Place

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Last time on yu-gi-oh! Zexal...

Vetrixfinally the moment has come!

I will drain hart's power from him and make it mine!

My plan for revenge can at long last be fulfilled!

With my new power, dr. Faker will have no chance!

Kiteare you the ones who took my brother?

Where is he?

Quattroif you want to save the kid, you don't have any choice!

You'll have to get past us first.

Astralthis will be...

A tag team duel!

Togetherlet's do this!

Puppet of strings, cut galaxy-eyes down to size!

Celestial slash!

Yumaplease kite...

We can't let quattro win!

Think of what'll happen to your brother.

Hartkite, please help me!

Just hang on, hart!

I will save you!

Here, kite!

You can use my power!

Treyhe's up?

Neo galaxy-eyes photon dragon, blast machu mech with ultimate

Photon stream of destruction!

Rey, no!

Now,

I'm gonna take you down, quattro!

Attack!

♪ If life is a game they say

♪ I can't win, I'll never amount to nothing ♪

♪ Tear me down before my life begins ♪

♪ I won't be afraid to challenge myself ♪

♪ They won't ever break my fire, my dreams won't die ♪

♪ If I hi-five the sky

♪ Spread my wings take off it's time to fly ♪

♪ Take a chance to make it all the way ♪

♪ Take a chance forgetting yesterday ♪

♪ Take a chance believe...

♪ Nothing will bring me down

♪ No retreat when I leave all my fears behind ♪

♪ My future's still alive inside ♪

♪ Take a chance to chase my doubts away ♪

♪ Believing gets me through my darkest days ♪

[♪...]

♪ Take a chance to make it all the way ♪

♪ Take a chance forgetting yesterday ♪

♪ Take a breath my heart will lead the way ♪

♪ Take a chance

♪ I'll take a chance today

Yeah, we did it, kite!

Orbital yeeeeah! They won! Victory!

This is... Embarrassing.

We just lost. We lost!

What's wrong?

You okay?

Master kite!

You're finished.

Now tell me where hart is.

Where's my brother?

Sorry.

All of a sudden, I can't remember.

Okay, I gotcha.

Well maybe you won't talk, but your soul will!

What's this?

Aaaagh!

I cannot recover their numbers.

Astral!

What?

What was that just now?

Is that...

What happened?

I am not sure.

Heh, nice try.

But this crest that we bear protects

Us from your little tricks.

You can't touch us!

You and your little buddy may've lucked out this time,

But... What?

No, not...

Toriwhoa, he vanished!

Who is that being?

Come, trey.

It's time to go home.

Where's my brother?

Tell me...

Trey, come.

Where have you taken hart?

No!

Get back here!

Where did they go?

They just...

They vanished!

Hart...

Quintonyour brother is right here.

Hart!

Are you okay?

Hart, talk to me.

Hey, I remember you.

You're that guy from the tower.

I'm hart's friend.

I'm here to help.

Wait. Uh... Hang on...

Hart will be perfectly safe with me, I assure you.

Let's go.

So, uh... Who's side are you supposed to be...

What's going on?

What've you done with hart?

Don't hurt him!

Hart, what did they do to you?

Master hart.

Who are you?

What did you want with my little brother?

That's a simple question with a very complex answer.

Perhaps another time.

You should know that after all he went through, he still had a

Little strength left but,

He chose to give it to you.

What?

Here, kite!

You can use my power!

You mean he's like this 'cause of me?

You've got a lot of explaining to do, pal.

Start talking!

It's you again. You're as persistent as your father.

Huh?

What do you know about my father?

Your father is alive, yuma. He's in astral world.

What if that guy was serious back there?

What do you mean my dad's in astral world?

Is that where you're from?

Is he there right now?

Wait, hang on!

Tell me what you meant by that!

Have you seen my dad?

Can you take me to him?

Wait!

Don't leave!

Astral world. Hey wait a minute, if that's where you're from,

Does that mean you might know my dad?

I do not know.

I have no memories of him.

So then maybe one of the numbers we don't have yet has a

Memory of my dad. We've gotta gather as many as we can.

Why do you even hunt numbers anyway?

Well, answer me!

I do it because it's the only way

I can save my little brother.

Hart isn't well.

But if we get the numbers,

Kite won't be able to make hart better.

But if what hart said at the tower is true,

I'm on a mission to destroy astral world.

And if my dad really is in astral world,

Then that would mean...

Aaaargh, this stinks!

I dunno what to do, it's like no matter what happens,

Things are gonna end badly!

Wait a sec!

One thing at a time!

I know where my dad might be!

Astral world, here I come!

I'm comin', dad!

Hey!

Yuma, wait!

Hart!

Where are you taking him?

Nistrocalm down!

Go for a walk or something.

Move it.

You know I can't let you past these doors, kite.

So you're not gonna move?

Alright then, guess we're doin' this the hard way!

Dextraback off, kite!

You have to trust mr. Heartland.

He'll do everything he can.

I know that you're concerned about your brother kite, but...

You can't help him now.

Tell me, why didn't you inform the rest of us when you

Discovered that the original number had

Aligned with yuma tsukumo?

You know about that?

We do.

Well don't you worry.

I plan on dealing with him.

"Dealing with him?"

You two just had a tag duel like a couple of chums.

I hear you did well together.

I will deal with him, kite.

Leave him to me.

You do not wanna get in my way, nistro.

Bad things will happen.

Dr. Fakeroh hart,

I can't help but fear that this state you're in is all my fault!

Dear boy...

Mr. Heartlandrest assured

Dr. Faker, my people are doing everything they can.

Who did this to him, mr. Heartland?

Tell me, who took his power?

According to kite's report, it was the work of a group of

Individuals bearing a powerful crest.

A crest?

Whoever they are, they will no doubt show themselves in the

Duel carnival finals.

And when they do, I want you to make them pay for this!

I don't care how you do it, heartland!

But you must recover hart's power!

Yes sir.

You do not know how to get to astral world.

That occurred to me.

But, when he disappeared, my dad was looking for

The edge of the world.

So that's what I'm gonna do!

And what about the numbers?

What about helping me recover my memories?

C'mon, don't try to guilt me.

It's just, he's my dad.

I've gotta bring him back.

Alright, let's do this!

Kariso what's in the bag, yuma?

Are you finally doing your laundry?

You're probably not gonna believe me.

But there's something you need to know.

Is this about dad being in some alternate universe or something?

Yeah, tori told me everything.

So what, you're gonna go to this other world?

False.

Now just go back inside.

Look, as much as I'd love to sit and explain all this, I can't.

And now if you'll excuse me...

Later!

Yuma, wait a sec!

Don't worry dad, I'm gonna find you, no matter what it takes.

Rokuso, does this mean you're giving up on the duel carnival?

Who's there?

Up here!

Long time no see, yuma!

Master roku!

It's been like forever since you kicked my butt in the sanctuary.

How have ya' been, old-timer?

You have the look of someone who's running away from

Something. What are you running from, yuma?

Well...

I wanted to see what my promising young pupil was up to,

So I came down from the mountain.

I expected to find you giving the duel carnival all

You've got.

Little did I know that you were facing

Such a difficult situation.

Oh great, so it sounds like you understand.

I'll be going now.

Not so fast!

I hereby challenge you to a duel!

Thing is, I'm really not in a dueling mood right now, so uh...

What?

I am your dueling master!

And my request will not be denied!

If you think you're ready to do what you're about to do,

Then prove it.

Alright, let's do this thing.

I cannot lend you any assistance.

I think you need to do this alone.

I don't need any help proving myself!

Bring it!

You asked for it, gramps!

Duel disk go!

Duel gazer let's roll!

Computer voiceaugmented reality vision link established.

Let's duel!

I can feel hart's power beginning to awaken inside me.

It's my turn!

I draw!

Nice, that's what I was lookin' for!

I'm summoning gagaga girl!

How do ya' like them apples, old timer?

My field is loaded with monsters ready to attack!

I can end this right now.

Gagaga girl is leading the attack!

Gagaga charge!

Now, everybody!

Attack!

I reveal my trap card!

Mirror force!

You destroyed them. All of them!

You were so impatient to end

This that you didn't stop to strategize.

Yeah well, I've still got the advantage, old-timer.

I end my turn!

Hmph,

Let's look into that "advantage."

Interesting.

Seems I'll be summoning queen's knight in attack mode.

And now I'll summon the king's knight to join his queen.

Now the virtuous couple is united,

But the royal court is not yet complete!

When king's knight and queen's knight are both on the field, I

Can summon another card directly from my deck.

Time to make way for jack's knight!

Not good.

I activate polymerization!

With this spell, their powers fuse together to give rise to

The defender of the imperial throne!

Arcana knight joker!

It's got thirty-eight hundred attack points?

Seriously?

You thought you had the advantage,

But you were blinded by your impatience!

This duel is over. Arcana knight joker attack yuma directly!

Yuma!

C'mon!

Let's duel again!

No!

What are so you impatient for, yuma?

In your current state, you could never defeat me.

Right now you're a fool!

All impulse and no thought.

It's just that, I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

If I help astral, hart gets hurt.

But if hart's trying to destroy astral world

And my dad's there, then...

So you decided you would run away from your problem?

It's not that.

Running off to find your father is certainly brave in theory.

But with you not knowing where to even start looking, really it

Seems you're just running off.

And look at all you'd be abandoning - your dueling, the

Carnival, your friend astral.

All that you've been fighting for and training for.

I think you're scared to face your problem.

But yuma, I want you to look at your feet.

Those feet are firmly rooted in dueling.

You can't just walk away from it.

No more than you could outrun yourself.

Dueling is the bond between you and your father.

You must trust that the path of the duelist will lead you to the

Answers you seek.

Okay, yeah.

You're right!

I can totally do this,

I just gotta take it one duel at a time!

This power!

It's like nothing I've ever felt before!

Even with the crest, I'm having a hard time controlling it!

Hope you're ready, dr. Faker.

Soon, I will ruin you with the very power you so desire.

Your end is coming.

So the guy who's put this whole duel carnival together.

Do you know anything about him?

Every light casts a shadow.

Every puppet has a puppeteer.

That is what I know.

Huh?

Mr. Heartland is just a face.

He's a smile and a voice, but he is not the words.

Are you saying there's some secret mastermind who really

Calls the sh*ts?

The man who's said to have built heartland city

Was a brilliant scientist named dr. Faker.

And what's his story?

His story is pretty much a mystery.

Is he still here?

Has he moved on?

Nobody knows much about him and that is most likely how

Dr. Faker wants it to be.

He did leave one time.

Your father led him on an expedition.

In fact, it was your father's last expedition before

Disappearing.

Your father, dr. Faker, and mr. Heartland are all connected.

This cannot be written off as mere coincidence, yuma.

Astral's right. I have to keep going.

I have to win the duel carnival.

What?

That boy just now?

Yes.

Yuma tsukumo has teamed up with the original number.

Did you say tsukumo? As in kazuma tsukumo's son?

Yes.

It can't be.

That's impossible.

That figure I saw at the end of our duel.

I'm certain it was him. The envoy from astral world.

But what's yuma's connection with him?

Yuma tsukumo...

It's time to find out more about you.

Choosing that card makes

Choosing the one before unnecessary.

You mentioned that!

But I want both cards in my deck, so both cards it is!

Well then at least protect it with that trap card.

Which trap card?

That one right there.

Let's win this thing, astral.

That is the plan.

Speaking of plans, you got one for roku's snoring?

♪ Nothing will bring me down

♪ No retreat when I leave all my fears behind ♪

♪ My future's still alive inside ♪

♪ Take a chance to chase my doubts away ♪

♪ Believing gets me through my darkest days ♪

[♪...]

♪ Take a chance to make it all the way ♪

♪ Take a chance forgetting yesterday ♪

♪ Take a breath my heart will lead the way ♪

♪ Take a chance

♪ I'll take a chance today